Proof that the rich, famous and influential use PistonHeads. Well, the
presenters, at least (or more likely their production team).
It seems that the Lotus Excel turned by the Top Gear crew into a motorhome for part of a challenge on the forthcoming series was purchased from our very own classifieds section.
A member of the Scoobynet Subaru forum spotted the trio of motorhomes on a Cornish beach, including James May's Excel conversion, and posted them up. That's when an eagle-eyed fellow forummer recognised May's Excel as the one he had been toying with buying on PH...
It's hard to know how to take that news really. On the one hand it's nice to see that the televisual giant that is
is sourcing its cars from PH, but a cursory glance at the
advert in question
seems to reveal a clean, original car - and it seems a shame to have turned it into what you see in these pictures.
So: travesty or victory? We'll leave that one up to you, but there are more than a few of us in the PH office who reckon it's a bit of a sad end for an underrated 1980s Lotus. Still, it's all in the name of entertainment, we suppose.
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